For in the midst of the triumphs of Christianity there have continually risen rebellious children against it, children whom the Almighty has given over to the pride of their self-conceit, to the misguidance of their reason, to the corruptions of their mind, who blaspheme what they ignore, who deny what they do not understand, of wicked men who pervert the grace of God, convert light to darkness, of disobedient men who despise every rule, who reject all authority not their own, who defile all their ways like unto animals without reason, and who are waiting to be summoned to suffer the punishment for their blasphemy at the judgement seat of God.
Massillion
If the Apostles publish the Gospel throughout the universe, if they cast abroad the flames of divine love, if they win victories over the world and over hell, it is because Mary is the word which renders them eloquent, the light which illuminates them, the love which consumes them, the power which makes them terrible to tyrants and devils.
Olier
It makes me laugh, and yet it makes me sad, when I hear of the things which people come here to beg us to pray to God for: we are to ask His Majesty to give them money and to provide them with incomes – I wish that some of these people would entreat God to enable them to trample all such things beneath their feet.
St Teresa of Avila
There are some miserable men, let us rather say fools, who in the delirium of their iniquity make bold to declare that they laugh at Hell. They say so, but only with their lips, their consciences protest and give them the lie.
Fr Schouppe SJ
Virginity is the flower from the Church’s seed, the beauty and ornament of spiritual grace, a joyous inborn character, the perfect and entire masterpiece of praise and honour, the image of God, responding to the Lord’s holiness, the most illustrious part of Christ’s flock.
St Cyprian
He who follows Me, walks not in darkness,” says the Lord. By these words of Christ we are advised to imitate His life and habits, if we wish to be truly enlightened and free from all blindness of heart. Let our chief effort; therefore, be to study the life of Jesus Christ.
The Imitation of Christ
